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Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warrentold the Boston Globe late Wednesday that she informed Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania that she was Native American. This is the first time Warren has acknowledged that she provided the information to the schools where she taught as a law professor.

“At some point after I was hired by them, I . . . provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard,’’ Warren told the Globe in a statement. “My Native American heritage is part of who I am, I’m proud of it and I have been open about it.’’

Warren continued to say that the information was not used during her recruitment process. Warren previously said she learned Harvard was claiming her as a minority from the Boston Herald, which broke the story.

The Globe found documents in Harvard’s library showing that Harvard Law School began reporting a Native American female professor in federal statistics in 1992-93, when Warren was a visiting professor at Harvard. The school reported a Native American female professor again beginning in 1995-96, when Warren returned to Harvard as a tenured professor.

The federal statistics use a definition of “Native American’’ that requires ancestry and an official affiliation with a tribe or community, the Globe reported. Warren has so far not provided any evidence of her family affiliation with the Cherokee tribe, saying only that she has family history that tells her so.